Welcome New Members & Visitors

What is the Worldbuilders Guild?

We are a group dedicated to collecting great artwork that will inspire worldbuilding. Our members are both artists who like to draw fantasy worlds and want to share their artwork, as well as writers who enjoy creating and writing about such worlds and benefit from viewing the great artwork.

What Is Worldbuilding?

Worldbuilding is the process of creating a fictional world, from drawing the world map right down to creating the civilizations and races that live in the world. It is most often undertaken by fantasy and sci-fi writers however, films and video games also feature worldbuilding especially if they are in the fantasy or sci-fi genre.

The degree of building that is done depends entirely upon the individual writer and their needs. Arguably the most famous world builder is J.R.R Tolkien.

Can I become a Guild Member?

Certainly, we’d love to have you join The Worldbuilders Guild. Though if you would like to submit your artwork then please only submit your best work as we like to keep a high standard to provide the greatest inspiration and quality possible.

Please don’t be offended if your art is rejected, we will try and tell you why your piece was rejected. However, most of the time it is due to the art being submitted to the featured folder rather than the relevant one.

Do you have artwork submitted to the Worldbuilders Guild gallery that you'd like to get more views for?

If you have scenes, landscapes or creatures, etc. then Jamie Buckley from WantedHero.com is interested in helping promote your artwork. Jamie is a prolific author and would like to use your artwork on his website in exchange for a link back to either your art or website.

I've also arranged that if you contact Jamie directly and let him know you're apart of the guild then he'll give you a copy of his main novel series for your kindle, free of charge. Just drop him an email.

If you have any questions then leave a comment on this message and I'll get an answer to you.

Every world needs an ecosystem of creatures to give it life and every adventurer needs monsters to fight. However, what we sometimes forget is to include the cute creatures that can inhabit a world. As a celebration of the amazing creature artists in our group I've collected 21 of my favourite cute creatures into an article.

These cute creatures could also make for a great pet or sidekick for your main character – they may even warrant a whole story of their own.

If you've visited the group page recently then you'll have seen that we now have over 1000 watchers! This is great news and a real testament to the Worldbuilding community on DA and the hard work of the group mods and all of the great artists who have submitted their work to the WBGuild.

I'd like to say a big thank you to Erich and Andrew who joined near the beginning of the year to help me serve you all as moderators for the group. We do consider it an honour to guide this group and curate great Worldbuilding inspiration on DA.

I'm really looking forward to the future of the group and for ways we can better server the DA Worldbuilding community in 2014. Also The WBSchool is undergoing updates due to launch in 2014 so I will keep you updated with them as they happen. Though the first thing will be a new site design so you'll be able to read the articles on mobile devices easier.

Finally I've added a link to the group submission guidelines on our homepage as we've realised they haven't been all that easy to find up until now. So if you're a new member or watcher and haven't seen them before then please click on the thumbnail below and take a quick read. Or if you're a long time member it's always good to refresh your memory.

Well, sounds like a good idea, but since my internet sucks so much I can't actually watch any livestreams, I guess I'm out. Good luck, though! Oh, and just a little tip, make sure you keep your quality at about 240p or 360p for the people with slower connections.

I'm sure you'll find someone around here interested in joining your worldbuilding project I'm getting married in a couple of weeks so unfortunately I don't have any spare time at the moment. However, do you have a short paragraph about the world you're wanting to build?

If so please add it to a comment here as it will give the WBGuild an idea of what you're wanting to build and if it would interested them.

It's not mine per se, but it's a realistic counter earth set in the 1910's world. We are still relatively new so we need new players as of now (we have only four nations as of April 2014) so we need some more help on the setting.